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title: Psalms 31:17 (JPS 1917) — Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant; save me in Thy lovingkindne… · tree and pragmatics
description: Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant; save me in Thy lovingkindness. Who acts: you, face. Psalms 31:17 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 31:17 · JPS 1917

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Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant; save me in Thy lovingkindness.

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**Who acts:** you, face · **What happens:** make, shine, save · **To what, where:** face, servant, me, lovingkindness

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This is Psalms 31:17 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PSA:463
# text = Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant; save me in Thy lovingkindness.
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	lovingkindness	lovingkindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=character

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | Thy face |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | to-infinitive | Thy face *not said here* |  |  | Thy servant |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon servant=Location |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  | Thy lovingkindness |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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הָאִ֣ירָה פָ֭נֶיךָ עַל־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ ה֖וֹשִׁיעֵ֣נִי בְחַסְדֶּֽךָ׃

[Psalms 31:17: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.17/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:463` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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